Online learning used to be synonymous with shady diploma mills that offered a questionable product. Now it suggests something much better and more technologically sophisticated.
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Teens with ADHD are likely to carry with them a variety of difficulties into adulthood, including problems with physical and mental health, work and finances,
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The year saw some disappointments in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s. But the setbacks were offset by progress in other areas.
During the year, several very different lines of research all began to suggest a new way of thinking about Alzheimer’s — that it has to be stopped before it damages the brain.
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Did you receive a gift of a new iPad this year? If so, you’re probably spending this holiday vacation week trying out all kinds of new apps. Here are ten that I recommend getting started with…
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Why is Twitter key to your success?With more than 140 million active users (over 60% of whom are mobile users), 400 million Tweets sent per day, and over 400 million monthly unique visitors to
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In 2011, KPMG in Australia published the Family Business Survey, Stewards: Moving Forward, Moving Onward. The study explored a cross section of 658 family enterprises across Australia, most of whom believed in the need to innovate.
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Educational opportunity is not as varied as you might think across the world, as nearly all children from OECD countries have universal access to education. And enrollment rates in these countries are on the rise, too.
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The ability to think about information in new and unusual ways can be hampered when we wield too much brainpower. This means that what we think of as our optimal time of day, may not be optimal for everything.
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Colleges and universities in Canada, the U.S. and soon Europe are creating pages on Facebook where students can submit anonymous compliments to others on campus. So far, there are about 56 of these pages.
Students and kids with learning disabilities can benefit from the surge in the use of educational apps on mobile devices particularly iPad. There are actually several iPad apps that can help your students overcome their autism and speech issues, develop both their communication and social skills, and enhance their literacy capabilities.
Here is a list we have curated for you containing awesome apps specifically designed for students with learning disabilities.
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A patient’s own blood has been used to make personalised stem cells, which doctors hope can be used to treat a range of diseases.
The team at the University of Cambridge says this could be one of the easiest and safest sources of stem cells.
In a study, published in the journal Stem Cells: Translational Medicine, the cells were used to build blood vessels.
However, experts cautioned that the safety of using such stem cells was still unclear.
Stem cells are one of the great hopes of medical research. They can transform into any other type of cell the body is built from - so they should be able to repair everything from the brain to the heart, and eyes to bone.
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Everyone defines the qualities of an entrepreneur differently. Are they creative, confident, driven or just plain insane?
See what 21 of our guests think and how they define an entrepreneur. From Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg and Jimmy Wales, to the founders of Practice Fusion, Socialcam, Parkme, 99Designs, our favorite Valley Girl Show guests offer up some of this great advice.
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Spark by Spark Devices screws into any standard light socket. Using a smart device users can dim lights, bring lights up when your alarm goes off, or flash the lights when a text or e-mail is received.
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The MedCottage by N2Care allows families to keep their aging loved ones close to home by by installing the 288 square foot buildings on their property. The mEdCottage will reportedly retail for around $85,000.
Described as a “state-of-the-art hospital room,” the MEDCottage is equipped with sensors that alert caregivers to problems and medication reminders via computers, the website said. Using “smart robotic features,” it can also remotely monitor vital signs, filter the air for contaminants and communicate with the outside world.
Nearly nine in 10 consumers who shopped online via a tablet during Black Friday used an iPad, a new study suggests.
The IBM 2012 Holiday Benchmark report indicates the iPad brought 88% of traffic to the mobile web on Black Friday — more than any other tablet or smartphone. It also made up 10% of total online shopping.
The data comes from the company’s IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, a cloud-based platform which tracks more than a million e-commerce transactions each data and analyzes data from 500 U.S. retailers.
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How does a virtual world carry over into kids’ real life? Contributor Rebecca Levey has tips that can help.
“Here’s a news flash: your child is most likely going to online places he or she shouldn’t. Like my daughter. She ended up as a scantily clad avatar dancing with a virtual man in leather pants in a virtual club in a virtual world. Only when her virtual dance partner asked her to remove her virtual top (an action, by the way, the site does not allow) did she tell me where she had been. Why did she tell me? Because she was freaked out and afraid. But also because I’ve made it OK for her to tell me about her online activities.”
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Researchers from the the University of Durham have captured fetuses yawning in the womb using 4D ultrasound scans. 4D is the term for a 3D image of the fetus moving in real-time.
For a long time, some scientists have argued that fetuses simply open their mouth and do not yawn.
With these new scans, British researchers say they can tell the difference, and that more than half of the 15 fetuses recorded on video were yawning. Yawning, in turn, provides clues about the health of an unborn baby.
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Between their Black Friday Best Buy expeditions and Cyber Monday mania on Amazon, many holiday shoppers plan to celebrate Small Business Saturday this weekend.
Conceived in 2010, the “holiday” puts the spotlight on local mom-and-pop retailers. If you’re looking for info about which small businesses have the best deals, however, you might not find it online. More than 60% of small businesses do not have a website, and many that are online do not show up in search results.
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Give Paul Bloom one hour, and he’ll teach you “the psychology of everything,” illustrating some of the most fundamental elements of human nature through case studies about compassion, racism, and sex. He discusses some of the biggest questions in the nature versus nurture debate, including “Are we hard-wired to care about others?”
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One day, we may be able to make ourselves superintelligent with futuristic biotechnology. We’re not there yet, but for the impatient among us there are still some things we can do to give us that little extra bit of brain power.
Until recent years, the story of your brain was pretty discouraging. When I was getting my degree in Cognitive Science in the 1980s, I was told what you may have heard: you are born with billions of brain cells. Your brain sets like concrete as you become an adult. Neurons die throughout your lifetime, and then you die. So suck it up!
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Neuroscience is rewriting the story of your brain to be much more encouraging. Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to rewire and restructure itself due to learning and experience. Few scientists believed in neuroplasticity until recent years. Now the consensus is clear: under the right circumstances your brain physically and significantly changes throughout your life.
CardioNet, one of the oldest companies in the mobile cardiac arrhythmia monitoring space, announced the launch of a new product last week, the wEvent wireless event monitor.
“This new wireless device provides physicians a much improved replacement to their traditional event monitor,” CEO Joseph Capper said in a statement. “The wEvent, unlike existing event monitors, offers wireless transmission of symptom and activity reporting, providing a higher level of patient convenience and better quality of information.”
Students may no longer enjoy the luxury of slacking off in privacy because of new electronic textbooks that report their study habits.
Teachers can track the time spent reading e-textbooks and see the notes or highlights made by students through the new service offered by CourseSmart Analytics. Three U.S. universities and colleges have signed on to test the e-textbook service before it becomes widely available in 2013 — a way to identify students who need help and gauge the e-textbooks that hold student interest.
Fugitives generally try to keep a low profile while running from the police, but murder suspect and tech entrepreneur John McAfee has done the opposite: He started a blog.
McAfee, founder of the eponymous anti-virus software company McAfee, launched “The Hinterland,” a blog detailing his experience hiding from authorities in Belize, on Saturday. He is the prime suspect in the murder of an American expat named Gregory Faull who was shot in his San Pedro Town home two weeks ago, Gizmodo reported.
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As healthcare providers implement the changeover to electronic medical records and meaningful use requirements, the opportunities seen by health IT companies aren’t restricted to US businesses.
Popular neuromyths about how we learn are creating confusion in the classroom… “No, you do not, in fact, use just 10% of your brain, and “learning styles” make no difference in the classroom. Psychology professor Christopher Chabris discusses these and other “neuromyths” with WSJ’s Gary Rosen.”
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In July, card issuers and banks reached a $7.25 billon settlement with merchants. As a result of the settlement, nearly seven million merchants in the U.S. will receive paid damages and lower processing interchange fees for an eight-month period. The settlement, which is viewed as a major ‘win’ for merchants, also allows merchants to surcharge the customer when they choose to pay with credit.
To surcharge or not to surcharge -– it’s the question you’ll need to answer.
Ever set fire to your hair? Or, better yet, sell both your kidneys online? Hopefully not — those are really bad ideas.
A new PSA by the Melbourne Metro highlights those mishaps, among others, in an animated sing-along.
The video, called “Dumb Ways to Die,” is part of a campaign to help prevent train-related deaths in the state of Victoria, Australia — a region that suffers from an alarmingly high number of train accidents each year. The overall message: be smart, be safe.
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Diabetes is a chronic condition that results from defects in insulin production, insulin action or both. There are two main types of diabetes. Type 1 usually occurs before the age of 20 and is a result of the pancreas no longer making insulin. This type of diabetes requires taking insulin and possibly other medication. Type 2 diabetes, often called adult onset diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes and can be controlled with proper diet, medication and exercise.
The National Diabetes Education Program, through the National Institutes of Health, points out that you may know what to do to manage your diabetes, but putting those steps into action in your daily life can take some work.
Having a smartphone might make monitoring your glucose numbers and carbohydrates throughout the day a bit easier. Don’t have a smartphone? There are a number of web tools, too.
